Last night I had gone to a very Israeli public singing event organised by the Tel Aviv municipality , singing together at the port of Tel Aviv ;a band led by a white haired accordion player led the singing, some middle aged people were dancing by the stage while we sat behind the fence near the ocean which was roaring and flooding the quay .

A lone fisherman stood with his back to us trying to catch fish , many people walked by, religious jews the men wearing skullcaps, the women typical tower like headscarves, a few Arab families walked by , the Arab women wearing nun like headscarves covering their entire head leaving only a window for the face, wearing modern pants alongside men casually dressed in jeans carrying a baby and a toddler on a minibike by their side.

and then this song came up ; It brought up so many memories, a university colleague of mine, my lab partner played in the Rabbinical IDF band .

The main singer sang this Russian folk song translated to Hebrew that went straight to my heart. Young religious girls wearing skirts came up to the band and asked for autographs…

Years had gone by but the memory of the song still plays in my mind ..this morning i recorded my version :